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[tense music]
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- Hallelujah it's thick in here.
Whew.
So I'm looking for a-- sort of a sweet spot
that's essential to different resources
and also far enough off the river
that I feel safe from predators and floods
and hard weather.
This spot looks like it drains okay.
The whole place is gonna be wet no matter what,
so I'm just gonna pitch up against this log
and make a real rudimentary shelter for the night.
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- Got a few things on my to-do list.
Got to get some kind of shelter up,
probably not on this hill.
'Cause it is gonna blow, blow, blow.
My first priority on launch day
is getting a shelter up and getting all of my
equipment and supplies under it.
Yeah, I see some real clouds rolling in now.
It's time to get that tarp up.
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- Let's prospect for a shelter location.
There were flash floods here not too long ago.
So I want to pick a good spot.
Tricky thing is, there's a lot of overhanging trees.
And you don't want to build your shelter
just under those trees.
That might fall over.
All right, I think it's gonna be better up there.
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- The ground needs clearing.
There's a lot of dead fall in here,
but I can clear the trees,
use them for shelter and firewood.
Ideally I would find a location where I can make
a dome shelter, but I find nothing
but windfall spruce everywhere,
just like a house of cards, just scattered.
Yeah, let's not cut a big hole in our tarp the first evening.
- Didn't bring a cord. I just wanted my ten items.
So I'm trying to make a little type of pup tent.
It's just a matter of time before
we start getting inclement weather.
And I'm feeling the pressure of time
to get something up and make sure
that everything stays dry.
Pretty janky.
Regretting the shelter design.
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- We got about 2 1/2 hours before dark.
So hopefully I can clear the ground.
I do not want to spend a lot of time on this
whole shelter-building thing.
And the only way that I truly learn
is the hard way and making a bunch of mistakes.
I think the person that fell down and got back up
is far stronger than the person that never fell at all.
And I just threw a tarp over a couple of logs.
Gonna give a little more shape to this tarp.
But hopefully that will get us through the night.
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- Trying to use these little pieces of cordage
to make prusick knots thinking to myself.
"This is gonna be a lot more challenging than I thought."
Everything's just thick and covered in moss.
And I have to go with what I've got,
because I'm losing time,
and weather is most likely coming in.
Back home I know when it's gonna rain.
Here the timber is so thick that the rainclouds
are on top of you before you know it,
and all of sudden it's raining.
Now, this is miserable.
Didn't realize that this clay was gonna get quite so soggy.
Everything's just sinking into the ground.
[rain pattering]
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- Pretty simple.
I'm gonna tie a line there,
set up a tarp.
I draw a lot of my inspiration for shelters
from my military life.
And I know that doing less work
and accomplishing the same goal is worthwhile.
It's started to rain again, but not heavy.
Got my bedding done.
And I think that's all I want to do for tonight.
[thunder booming]
- It started raining pretty hard.
And despite looking ugly
it's managing to keep things pretty dry.
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- Oh, crap.
This thing is gonna condensate up.
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Yep, I could have put some more thought into all this.
Less than ideal.
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